Say the right things when electioneering
Submitted by Secret Society
Y’all have until Monday, August 24th to vote in the 74th Annual DownBeat Readers Poll.
(I’m not sayin’ anything, I’m just sayin’.)
Scott, on the other hand, implores:
If we can elect an African-American man with an Islamic name President of the United States, getting non-mainstream jazz artists and labels some love in a poll like this should be a snap.
There’s been an almost staggering amount of blogospheric back-and-forth about Terry Teachout’s WSJ piece “Can Jazz Be Saved?” and Nate Chinen’s response in the NYT. I already said my piece in the comments at Nate’s blog, but I will also add that one way jazz might signal its relevance to younger listeners would be if forward-thinking young musicians — like for instance, some of the artists we are delighted to share the stage with at this year’s New Languages Festival — showed up in polls like this.
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